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Union Iron Works (St. Louis)

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The Union Iron Works (also known as Union Marine Works) was a shipbuilding and engineering firm in Carondelet, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It was operated by James Eads during the American Civil War and built a number of ironclads for the Union Navy.

Prior to its lease by Eads in 1861, the facility was known as the Carondelet Marine Railway Company.

In 1869 and 1870, facilities of the Union Iron Works were used by William Nelson and Co to fabricate the caissons used during construction of Eads Bridge.

Ironclad boats constructed at Union Iron Works between 1861 and 1864

City-class gunboats constructed at Union Iron Works

USS Carondelet

USS Louisville

USS Pittsburgh

USS St. Louis (Renamed Baron DeKalb)

City-class boats built by James Eads & Co. at the Mound City Marine Railway and Shipyard

USS Cairo

USS Cincinnati

USS Mound City

Milwaukee-class monitors constructed at Union Iron Works

USS Milwaukee

USS Winnebago

Milwaukee-class monitors constructed by others under subcontract to Union Iron Works

USS Chickasaw (subcontract by Gaylord, Son & Co, St. Louis)

USS Kickapoo (subcontract by G.B. Allen & Co, St. Louis)

Neosho-class monitors

Neosho

Osage